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Newspaper
Pittston Gazette
Location
Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
1
The Pittston Gazette dated Saturday August 9 1002 presents a note that the Home News is printed free in the Gazette with a promise you will find more in town papers the day it happens. The fragment emphasizes prompt delivery and cross-publication.
Haaleton adopts a dog tax and tag rule to curb the nuisance. All taxed dogs must wear city issued tags or be seized. untagged dogs face seizure or ownership tax plus a $1 fine leading to death. In short time 600 dogs tagged, city expects further tagging and revenue near $1,200 after catchers’ costs.
A jumble of social items lists Misgathce Flynn visiting Miss Harriet Hoban in Olyphant, Irene in Slatington, and several others visiting relatives or staying with families in Forest City Lackawanna and nearby towns. Mentions include Miss Bessie Gash, Mame Harrop, Agnes Hines, B. H Butler, Minow Battle, Margaret MacDowell, Mylee Fry, and S. J. Freeman with travels to Towanda AUC and Washington. Henry C. Purnel suffered fever after a Sons of St George trip and is improving at home with Thomas H. Stenner visiting.
Local Gleanings reports talk of weather predictions cloudy with local rains for Sunday. It notes an infant born to Mr and Mrs Pat of Mudtown and several social and church events including a Hite orchestra gathering and a Bron street choir vacation. The piece mentions meetings of Y M C A directors and parish boards, a Sons of St George excursion, and various local civic and religious happenings.
A good crowd watched the local team trim Avoca nine by nine to six. Steadeld held opponents to five hits. West Pittston won with hard hitting led by Jones. Cork Lane Pounders beat Hamtown Unions 4 to 8 in another well played game.
The campaign reports rising interest as several new candidates enter the race for county commissioner and register of wills. Names like Pits clerk and Detro from Wilkes-Barre surface as likely contenders, while Hiram Kunts of Hazleton formally announces for register of wills and Mainwaring officer seeks re election. A potential coalition between Smith and Detro is mentioned.
A historical lecture defends Nero and Lucrezia Borgia, arguing against vilification. It portrays Nero as industrious and loyal, while tracing Lucrezia’s early kindness before alleged poisoning, and notes a contemporary speaker urges tolerance amid long-standing bias.
The item lists a job ad for home sewing work with materials provided, plus a harness and wagon for sale, an office room rental, and various product pitches. It includes a painkiller advertisement attributed to Perry Davis and several branded goods like Sandervon Oil and Hercules cable grease, ending with a caveat about trust status.
Imported men land at the Butler mine and Florence washery as nonunion workers swell Scranton operations. Mt Lookout temple coal firm prepares to break coal, with work restoring machinery at the Hutching breaker and plans to ship coal next week. A wagon loaded with groceries signals heightened labor tensions and supply efforts amid the ongoing strike.
Mrs. Annie Fear Williamson, 51, wife of a well known teamster, died suddenly from heart failure today after a long illness. Born in Pittaton, she lived here all her life with husband and three children. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM private, interment Pitts Patrick.
OCR fragments recount a brutal tale of Cyrua and an abuse of captive people, with vivid but unclear imagery of bloodshed and a crowd massacre. The text mentions a figure named Cyrua, references to a circus, a bloodthirsty plan, and soldiers turning on crowds. An unrelated line notes Herbert Ballantine of Ballantine Co. making an assignment for the benefit of creditors in Newark, New Jersey.
Chicago report states Walter Scott, president of Illinois Wire Co, was stabbed to death with a paper knife by Walter J. Stebbins in the Monadnock building. The sensational case unfolds amid a citywide shock as details emerge of the fatal assault and the motives alleged behind it.
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